]]>http://discoveringourstory.wisdomoftheelders.org/dostv-episodes-100-pilot/feed0Ep. 101: Robert Millerhttp://discoveringourstory.wisdomoftheelders.org/dostv-episodes-101-robert-miller
http://discoveringourstory.wisdomoftheelders.org/dostv-episodes-101-robert-miller#commentsSun, 03 Oct 2010 18:44:56 +0000http://discoveringourstory.wisdomoftheelders.org/?p=4372Discovering Our Story TV with featured guest Robert Miller, Native American author, lawyer and professor at Lewis and Clark college in Portland, Oregon speaks about Eminent Domain and the concept of “Manifest Destiny,” their historical impact and how its’ influence and practice continues today.

These highlights will support the participant in thinking about and working with important aspects of transforming difficulties and life experiences into a successful career pathway. The key areas include:

These highlights are to be utilized to assist the participant in answering and discussing the questions identified with each of the five lessons provided in this curriculum.

Marilyn Balluta

History (where we come from)

Na’Dene Athabascan, Gahei clan from Nondalton, Alaska

Grew up living on the subsistence cycle

Utilized a dog team for travel

Didn’t know what a hamburger or French fry was until age 13

Mentors & Opportunities (who and what supports us)

“I consider myself very fortunate that I had my grandma, my dad’s mom, and also on my mom’s side, my other grandma. I was fortunate enough to have them in my life, all the way through adulthood, all the way through to just a few years ago, less than ten years ago, that they were there. They taught us, they taught me what I needed to know in order to continue on with our tradition.”

“There’s my Aunt Pauline Hobson, for me she was the first person during my time of learning and teaching Dene’ina. She was the first role model to teach Dene’ina because she took it upon herself to teach Dene’ina because she has a teaching background. Her [and her] husband Steve Hobson Jr., they continue to live in Lake Clark, and they continue to speak Dene’ina. So they are huge inspirations to me to continue on.”

“I consider myself very fortunate that I had my grandma, my dad’s mom, and also on my mom’s side, my other grandma. I was fortunate enough to have them in my life, all the way through adulthood, all the way through to just a few years ago, less than ten years ago, that they were there. They taught us, they taught me what I needed to know in order to continue on with our traditions, whether it was learning how to cut fish, how to put up fish that was very important to me.”

“Nothing is going to come to you on a silver platter, what you want, you have to work for.”

“It is important to teach the traditions of living off the land and how we go out and gather our food; this is how we take care of it, and then the coming back and going back to school. Going back to a Western school and taking that experience with you into a classroom, being able to understand what it like to gather your food, and understand the importance of education and where it would take you.”

“Today, I am a professor at University of Alaska at Anchorage. So for the first time in UAA history, Dene’ina language is being taught there.”

These highlights will support the participant in thinking about and working with important aspects of transforming difficulties and life experiences into a successful career pathway. The key areas include:

These highlights are to be utilized to assist the participant in answering and discussing the questions identified with each of the five lessons provided in this curriculum.

Benn Rhodd

History (where we come from)

Potawatomi/Choctaw

“Boarding school was a very traumatic experience personally. Being torn from my family, my relatives, my community.”

“I was taken to boarding school, but my development up to that point was socially, and family, was unacceptable, because I began to drink at a young age, and got into a lot of trouble.”

Mentors & Opportunities (who and what supports us)

“My uncles and my aunties always used to say to me, ‘It’s up to you, Sonny.’ I always remember them saying that. Okay, hey that means I got to think for myself. I can’t turn and ask anyone for the answer, I have got to find it for myself.”

“The first time any man that was not of my own tribe, not of my family, had ever reached across to me and shook my hand. He said, ‘I expect you to live to what I said that I needed for you to do.’”

Walking from a disciplinary meeting and recognizing that he had a choice to make; did so in reference to the wind, the trees, the sky, etc.